From my office I can see the coastal foothills with areas of brighter sky behind them and there is a lot of beautiful green with yellow flowers. Usually by this time of year the foothills are brown, but not this year with our three-month-late winter.

Temps went from mid 80s to around 60 in about an hour and a half once the wind picked up. If I had a good camera and a nice spot to catch it, I'd record the clouds pouring over the mountains. Winds are over 70mph at the base of the foothills and a timelapse video isn't even needed to see the movement, even at 20 miles away.

Because this is a Cut off Low, I am not looking too much into the discussions as well as the model runs. These types of systems are notorious for being darn near impossible to get a handle on sometimes.

Because this is a Cut off Low, I am not looking too much into the discussions as well as the model runs. These types of systems are notorious for being darn near impossible to get a handle on sometimes.

Seriously...model to model variation right now is so extreme. One model shows a trace of rain and the other models shows a good dosing. Your probably better off tracking the storm in the radar on Wednesday!

I think that models are very inconsistant for California forecasting, especially with the micro-climates and transverse mountain ranges that greatly affect precipitation levels depending upon the orientation of the front or storm and where the moisture feed is coming from.

Now...If we look at the satellite loop...this shows how much moisture is already being entrained into this system from lower latitudes.

To me this appears to be a very wet system, with lots of moisture being drawn up from the sub-tropical jet. Even if the low is not that vigorous, the warmer temperatures and uplift of springtime air should make this a storm to remember...

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Perception is everything"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there". ~ Lewis Carroll

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" ~ Lao Tzu

Rainfall totals are still up in the air but they don't look to get any higher than 1" for most areas at this point. Offshore Flow will return this weekend and then a trough (with no moisture) early next week.

Wow, 73 in San Diego and Santa Monica was up to 69. That's the warmest weather those two places have had in a week!!! Probably won't be too long (over the next few weeks) before the next inland heat wave puts the beaches in the freezer again.

Will they one day say "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Santa Monica"?

Wow, two earthquakes in two days. I feel like we are just waiting for the big one to happen...

The San Andreas fault near Indio had been mildly active within the past couple weeks with small but detectable EQs measuring 3.3 to 3.7. So Cal has been awfully quiet seismically as of late, I wouldn't be surprised if we do get at least a 6.0 jolt in the area within the next few months....hopefully nothing too bad or near a populated area (knock on wood).

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Precipitation for the 2012/2013 rainfall season in La Quinta, CA...2.68"

Precipitation for the 2013/2014 rainfall season in La Quinta, CA...3.49"

Precipitation for the 2014/2015 rainfall season in La Quinta, CA...0.13"

The San Andreas fault near Indio had been mildly active within the past couple weeks with small but detectable EQs measuring 3.3 to 3.7. So Cal has been awfully quiet seismically as of late, I wouldn't be surprised if we do get at least a 6.0 jolt in the area within the next few months....hopefully nothing too bad or near a populated area (knock on wood).

I've been horrible about getting earthquake insurance. I really should do it.